I have no interest in power. I want wealth so that I can stop stressing out over money.
Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others.
Submitted 10 months ago by ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ter_maxima@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Some people want wealth to expand their stamp collection.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
These are both forms of power.
Sorrow3527@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I want wealth so I don’t have an existential crisis every time I need to get my brakes done. Or my teeth prosthetics needs repair
Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I want wealth so I can quit my day job and focus on creating art
medem@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
May I suggest Michael Lucas’ ‘Cashflow for Creators’. While not exactly a must-read, personally it helped me a lot to actually map, plan and ultimately take the decision to tell the corporate world to get stuffed.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What kind of art?
Witchfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m a performance artist
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I want wealth so i can quit this fucking joke of a job and have my own business.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don’t get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.
I don’t want to be rich, as to even try to do so I’d have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I’m rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me.
themaninblack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fuck yeah. When you come into Melbourne hit me up and we’ll have a drink
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Goals
three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social 10 months ago
I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same
idriss@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I kinda don’t fit in both. I need reasonable steady income/wealth (as soon as it covers food, a car, an apartment, gym, some clothes, … for me and some relatives) so I can do other stuff.
This will be centered around volunteering in different ways (open source, research, …) without fearing going homeless the moment I disagree with someone.
Given my low cost geo location, I am closer to this than ever.
bouh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Most people want wealth because it means they won’t need to think at how to survive the next month.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have no problem going to work every day if I know I can pay my bills and have some fun during my off time.
The last 12 months has been the first time in 20 years that I felt like I wasn’t able to accomplish that, and it’s getting worse.
And I’m content spending most of my weekends at home doing nothing, so I don’t feel like that’s too much to ask.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I want wealth to become Batman.
Monster96@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I want wealth for ease of mind. No more worries about food, shelter, and health for me and my family.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I’m still waiting for that ease of mind. I could live 2 years off my savings yet most of my anxiety remains financial.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The second fits me, I’d love to be able to secure a life for myself and my family — separate from the bullshit in the world (if possible).
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
I don’t want wealth. I want things and to do activities that require money. If I could skip the money and just have the things and activities, I would be happy.
Almacca@aussie.zone 10 months ago
And there’s the problem; equating wealth with money. The word ‘wealth’ originally meant ‘well-being, prosperity, and happiness’, and it still should. The word ‘welfare’ comes from the same root, but that’s been perverted as well.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And some people (named Peter Thiel) want both!
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
And some want wealth to do fun things, help people and not have financial worries.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No. Not me…I’m mainly in the second camp. I just don’t want to deal with… gestures to everything …all this.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 10 months ago
Everyone give your money to me so I become rich so I can achieve my goals.
Live in bunker in woods away from people
Make LeVar Burton president